How to repaint without erasing previous paint?

[neal8929]

I have made a program that has a button when you click it, it draws a random circle on the panel. You can click the button again and again and it will keep drawing a new circle in a random location but it erases the previous cirlce meaning that there is only one circle being drawn at a time. How can I make it so that when you click the button it draws a new random circle but does not erase the other ones?

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

public class Test extends JFrame {

	Board board;
    public Test() 
    {	

    	setLayout(null);

    	JPanel panel = new JPanel();
    	board = new Board();
    	
    	board.setBounds(200,0,600,600);
    	panel.setBounds (0,0,200,600);
    	panel.setBackground(Color.blue);
    	
    	JButton exitButton = new JButton("exit");
    	exitButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
                System.exit(0);
           }
        });
    	
    	JButton drawCircle = new JButton ("Random Circle");
    	drawCircle.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
            	ClickRandomCircle();
           }
        });

    	panel.add(exitButton);
    	panel.add(drawCircle);
    	
    	add (panel);
    	add (board);
    	
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(800, 600);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setVisible(true);
        setResizable(false);
    }
    
    public void ClickRandomCircle()
    {
    	board.repaint();
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        new Test();
    }
}

import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D;
import java.util.Random;

public class Board extends JPanel 
{
	Random r;
	Graphics2D g2;
	
	public Board()
	{
		r = new Random();
	}
	
	public void RandomCircle ()
	{
	
	}
    public void paint (Graphics g)
    {
    	super.paint(g);
    	g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    	
    	g2.draw(new Ellipse2D.Double(r.nextInt(500) + 1, r.nextInt(500) + 1,
                100,
                100));
    	
    }
}

[Fubarable]

First off, read the Java painting tutorial as it will explain much that will help you. Next, don't draw in a JPanel's paint(...) method but rather its paintComponent method (as the tutorial will explain to you). Next, you have two options here: 1) on JButton press, create an Ellipse2D and put it into an ArrayList<Ellipse2D>, and call repaint(). You should then iterate through the list in the paintComponent(...) method drawing each ellipse in the list, or 2) Draw each oval on a BufferedImage and then display the BufferedImage in your paintComponent method via its drawImage(....) method.

[neal8929]

That tutorial sounds like it would be helpful, could you post a link to it? I could not find it with a forum search. It's hard to figure out what is the best practice as some online tutorials tell you to do things one way and then others tell you to do them another way.

[DarrylBurke]

That tutorial sounds like it would be helpful, could you post a link to it?

Java painting tutorial

db

[neal8929]

Thanks man, I am sure google will allow me to find THE paint tutorial he is talking about because it must be the only ONE on the entire internet.

[Fubarable]

Well, it is the first hit if you Google it with the expected terms.